I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

Biggest change so far is Weyland shows up 5 minutes (or pages) into it and doesn't go on the trip, instead of showing up 5 minutes toward the end like some sort of big secret reveal. He's more interested in the technology the Engineers use (most specifically the terraforming technology) and not whether they can grant him immortal life.

scottydoesntknow:I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

I was really excited to see it, I even dragged my wife along, who is kinda meh on sci-fi movies, although she did enjoy "District 9". After "Prometheus" was done, I apologized and said I'd go see a rom-com as penance.

Mad_Radhu:scottydoesntknow: I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

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I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

hulk hogan meat shoes:scottydoesntknow: The Gentleman Caller: The ship wasn't called Prometheus? Was it Serenity? Because that sure as hell looked like Serenity. Like "add-two-engines-and-call-it-a-day" Serenity.

The script has it as Magellan, a much better name for an exploratory ship.

Yeah, that Prometheus connection was tenuous at best. Like most references made to Prometheus in pop culture.

No, not the hacking apart of the orgiinal script. The fanboys who tear absolutely everything apart if it isn't 100% perfect in their eyes.

You are why most major outlets go "fark it: LCD is cheaper and more profitable; plus we don't have crazed fanboys threatening to destroy us."

This is why we can't get good Sci-Fi. The people who get all butthurt when you point out one single solitary mistake that a movie makes, since all movies are 100% perfect and if you see something you don't quite understand, it's because you're the moran, not because the movie made a mistake. You are why Michael Bay keeps making movies because the Execs in Hollywood point to you and go "These people will defend us no matter what we do, so just make things blow up real good."

Techhell:Mad_Radhu: scottydoesntknow: I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

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I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

Fano:Techhell: Mad_Radhu: scottydoesntknow: I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

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I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

Mad_Radhu:scottydoesntknow: I'm about a quarter of the way through the script (they just reached the star system), and it's already a hundred times better.

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I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

I have to agree with this assessment. DL is not a good writer.He's one of those who should probably write backwards so that he could close the loops he creates. Hugely overrated right now.

theorellior:wildcardjack: Was I the only one who thought "If you have fusion plasma propulsion you don't need to crash into him, you just need to get him in your wake"?

They had a drive capable of single ship planet-to-planet transit. Those engines would have to be putting out gigawatts of energy.

Sadly, very few people in sci-fi have learned the Kzinti Lesson.

Actually I was thinking more from the time I watched an F-15 dig holes in a runway with it's afterburner.

Also, Heinlein went over the problem of launching a rather large ship from earth in Farmer in the Sky, noting that to launch the interplanetary ship from surface would have left a scorch mark the size of the Mojave. I'm going over instances of engine wash used as a weapon and I'm coming up Mythbusters. I remember them using shuttle engines on Moonraker to torch the 747, but that was worse BS than if a Creationist got the green light on their version Jurassic park.

I bought the DVD because I liked the special effects in the movies and the acting was good. The plot was bad. The thing that disappointed me the most is how the Aliens morphed from being to being which it was born in. Just didn't make any sense.

skinink:I bought the DVD because I liked the special effects in the movies and the acting was good. The plot was bad. The thing that disappointed me the most is how the Aliens morphed from being to being which it was born in. Just didn't make any sense.

That's something that carried over from Aliens 3 and other media.

The xenomorph absorbed some of the form of host species. Fairly canon stuff.

Mad_Radhu:I swear, we are going to look back on this guy in a few years and are going to realize that he is the Rob Liefeld of scriptwriting. I've never been more let down by show than I was with the final season of Lost.

Lindelof is a golem risen up from the shiatty culture that birthed him. A half witted, barely conscious culture will always find this person in the aggregate of humanity.

If there is more than one person listed as a writer in the credits, look to see if they are separated by an '&' symbol or by the word 'and'

'&' - Indicates the 2 people collaborated on the script.

'and' - Indicates that one person wrote the script, and the second person farked it up.

There are of course exceptions to this, but it generally holds pretty true. If a script needed to be worked on after the fact, it was either no good to begin with, or the studio wanted to broaden the appeal of the movie and will do so by adding explosions and fart jokes.